Color image of the Round Tower at Historic Fort Snelling, 2010. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Jonathunder.

Round Tower, Historic Fort Snelling

The Round Tower at Historic Fort Snelling, 2010. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Jonathunder.

Row house interior

Row house interior

Interior of a room in the reconstructed row house at the Snake River Fur Post in Pine City, Minnesota, 2010s.

Roy Campanella, June 13, 1948. In that year, Campanella became the first African American to play in the American Association when he played for the St. Paul Saints. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press.

Roy Campanella

Roy Campanella, June 13, 1948. In that year, Campanella became the first African American to play in the American Association when he played for the St. Paul Saints. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press.

Black-and-white photograph of Professor Roy W. Meyer at his Mankato State College desk in the early 1960s.

Roy W. Meyer

Black-and-white photograph of Professor Roy W. Meyer at his Mankato State College desk in the early 1960s.

Portrait photograph of Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins, c.1955. Photograph by Fabian Bachrach.

Photograph of Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, and Thurgood Marshall

Roy Wilkins (center) with Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall

Roy Wilkins (center) with Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall, c.1959. Photograph by Cecil Layne.

1975 Photograph of Roy Wilkins, Samuel Richardson, Governor Wendell Anderson and an unidentified man.

Roy Wilkins (second from left) with Samuel Richardson (left), unidentified man, and Governor Wendell R. Anderson (far right)

Roy Wilkins (second from left) with Samuel Richardson (left), unidentified man, and Governor Wendell R. Anderson (far right), 1975.

Rudy Boschwitz

Rudy Boschwitz

Republican Rudy Boschwitz ca. 1980, two years after he won election to the US Senate as part of the Minnesota Massacre.

Rudy Boschwitz campaign bumper sticker, 1978

Rudy Boschwitz campaign bumper sticker, 1978

Rudy Boschwitz senate-campaign bumper sticker, 1978.

Rudy Boschwitz on election night

Rudy Boschwitz on election night

“Republican US Senate candidate Rudy Boschwitz watches election night returns in his Bloomington hotel room, November 7, 1978.” From Dave Kenney and Thomas Saylor’s Minnesota in the 70s (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2013), 216. For the original image, see the Minneapolis and St Paul newspaper negatives collection (1936–1987), Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

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